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Of course, you do need to work for your tickets: Tell us what your
favorite OC venue is AND why, and we'll pick the winners by tomorrow
(for Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek) and Friday for the Shout Out Louds and Kaki
King.

Read our interview with conscious hip-hop purveyor Hi-Tek here, and then check out “Strangers (Paranoid)” from their new album:

Watch out for our print feature on guitar virtuoso Kaki King, out on Friday. In the meantime, check out “Yellowcake.”

And really when House of Pain sang, “jump up jump up and jump down,” they may have been talking about the Shout Out Louds.

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